I joked quite a bit throughout the pregnancy that there was "plenty of time." As it turns out, someone out there didn't appreciate the joke.

Short version: Jess has preeclampsia. We found out on Monday, and by Tuesday we were told the baby could be out by the end of March (34 weeks)... or it could be tomorrow. The window to know which is just a ( Read more... )

My wife entered her third trimester the other day ( Read more... )

A leash goes both ways.

Nowhere more acutely does this sentiment manifest itself than our goddamn cat. Well, Jess's cat. We used to have two of them, but one kicked it last year, and the second (more annoying) one is stubbornly clinging to life in a relatively healthy body ( Read more... )

What? Time again for another Year in Review©? Well then.

...actually, this time is going to be a bit awkward. Because, you see, I only actually made like 12 posts in 2018. One of which was last year's Year in Review. So. Yeah.

February 3rd -  One of the many (some unwritten) lamentations of cryptocurrency. The price of Litecoin had peaked in late ( Read more... )

[This post was originally written in October]

Jess got the genetic testing back. The lil' nugget is a boy ( Read more... )

[This post was written around 9/6 but not posted to preserve the news.]

So... I'm going to be a father.

Potentially. Presumably. I was actually surprised on my own birthday by Jess, who basically gave me a wrapped, positive pregnancy test as a present. I was too sick to appreciate it at the time - literally 7 days of being sick with a cold - but I'm ( Read more... )

Someone reminded me that I haven't posted in a while. So this is me posting.

The roof replacement has been completed. There was a worry that the prior owners had actually put on three layers of shingles instead of just two, but we got lucky with the latter - that saved $600 in disposal fees. At first, I was all like "$600 to throw away stuff?! ( Read more... )

It's a bit less of a joke when you're this close, eh?

What is funny is that I was trying to look back and see what my 5-year plan happened to be. As it turned out, I didn't have one when I turned 30. But that was about the time I started online dating for the first time, which... doesn't feel like 5 years ago at all. I was still rooming with ( Read more... )

I'm about a week from turning 35 ( Read more... )

I don't usually go to Facebook, and posts like the following are why:

The Boy Scouts are now just the Scouts?! Really?! I’m so confused. We have Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. I am sympathetic to a lot of things in this sinful world. I don’t understand these liberals with their idiotic opinions, on labeling things by gender. If it’s equal, I.e Boy ( Read more... )